CARLISLE SEX OFFENDER HAD VIDEOS OF WOMEN BEING KILLED AND ABUSED
A REPEAT Carlisle sex offender had a secret stash of sickening videos showing women being shot with guns and crossbows before being sexually abused.At the city’s Crown Court, the defendant admitted five offences.
They were possessing extreme pornographic images; two counts of failing to comply with being on the Sex Offender Register by not disclosing online usernames; and two charges of breaching his sexual harm prevention order by not disclosing to the police internet connected devices he had at his home.
Police monitoring software alerted officers that one of his devices had accessed extreme material.
Officers visited Robertson at his home in Carlisle to investigate.
He lied about having a PlayStation 5 console, which was discovered when police searched his workshop.
In a bedside table drawer in the house, the officers found a USB memory stick containing unlawful content.
That stick contained 38 images classified as extreme on the basis of violent sexual content.
They were videos, some two minutes long; they were violent pornographic movies, with women being shot with a handgun and crossbow, and sexually abused as they died.
That content was downloaded in 2023.
The other offences were breaches of court orders imposed in 2013 after Robertson was jailed for downloading indecent child images.
The bulk of his 54-month sentence, however, was for an offence of causing death by dangerous driving.
Robertson, of Inglewood Crescent, Carlisle, admitted downloading the extreme images but claimed they were “too much” for him and that he believed he was not allowed to delete the videos.
He said he was not aware that they were illegal.
His lawyer acknowledged that Robertson could provide no mitigation for possessing the illegal images but noted his recent diagnosis with ADHD, affecting his memory and associated with “not thinking through the consequences” of his actions.
Robertson, a former mechanic, was keen to understand and address his behaviour.
The judge stated Robertson engaged in “active deceit” when police visited him, failing to disclose his devices voluntarily.
The court described the 38 videos found on the USB as the “most deplorable, depraved” imagery, concerning the interest in such images irrespective of their reality.
He was sentenced to 14 months in jail, suspended for two years, including 25 rehabilitation activity days, 180 hours of unpaid work, and a requirement to complete a Building Better Choices Programme.
The sexual harm prevention order remains indefinitely.
